Thursday, July 10, 2008

During the exhibition opening on July 3rd, 2008, visitors were asked to share their own "Thoughts on Democracy." The following videos represent a selection of visitors' ideas about democracy, and reflect the range of perspectives and conversations that the Thoughts on Democracy exhibition has sparked.

Last week, over 250 people visited The Wolfsonian-FIU to attend the member's preview and exhibition opening of Thoughts on Democracy. With a mixed crowd of young and old, families and singles, artists and patrons of the arts, attendees at the opening enjoyed classic American refreshments while viewing the posters on display. Find more pictures from the event on The Wolfsonian's Flickr account.

About Thoughts on Democracy...

The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by sixty leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” posters of 1943, which were recently gifted to the museum by Leonard A. Lauder.

The Wolfsonian-FIU is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945 - the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War - in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.